Half to joseph w



( Mode G, o. MOORE.

GONGRESS'SHOE.

No. 496,526. Patented May 2, 1893.

THE NORRIS mans 00., PNOTO-LTTHl7-. WASHINGTON. D. c.

NrrEo TATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE C. MOORE, OF EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I-IALFTO JOSEPH W. GREEN, JR, OF SAME PLACE.

CONGRESS SHOE.

SPECIFIGATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 496,526, dated May 2,1893.

Application filed December 6, 1892. Serial No. 454,283. (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. MOORE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Easthampton, in the county of Hampshire and State ofMassachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCongress Shoes, of which the following is a specification, referencebeing had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Considerable trouble has arisen in what are known as Congress orelastic-side shoes, in which pieces of elastic woven fabric are insertedin the tops of the shoes, owing to the fact that the rubber warpsentering into the construction of this elastic fabric, (which is knownas goring) give way at the point of attachment of the goring to theleather portions of the shoe top, thus leaving the claslic fabric orgoring in a loose or slack condition long before the leather portions ofthe shoes are worn out. This trouble is largely occasioned by reason ofthe fact that the goring is usually attached directly to the leather,which latter contains more or less oil, which, by coming in contact withthe rubber strands of the goring, causes the saidrubber strands to rotso that they easily break and give way in use. Various efforts have beenmade to obviate this difficulty, but owing to the fact that theconstructions heretofore proposed were not satisfactory for this purposethey have not been largely adopted.

My invention has for its object to remove the difliculty referred to bythe use of a twoply tape one portion of which is woven into a singlefabric and the other portion of which is double. In the use of thistape, for the purpose stated, the double portion thereof is l to beattached to each edge of a piece of goring by one or more lines ofstitches, and the leather portions of the shoe top are attached to thesingle parts of the divided tape, thus rendering it unnecessary toattach the leather directly to the gorin g, and consequently avoid- 4'5ing contact of the leather with the goring so that the rubber threads ofthe latter are not injured by the oil in the leather.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a Congress boot or gaiterembodying my invention. Fig. 2isahorizontal section through a portionthereof to show the relation Of the goring, the divided tape and leatherportions of the shoe to each other. Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view ofthe divided tape which is employed in connection with my invention.

Referring to the drawings, (1 denotes the front leather portion of theupper part of a shoe, and b the back leather portion thereof. Betweenthese front and back leather portions of the shoe, on each side thereof,is placed a piece of elastic fabric or goring c, to each edge of whichis stitched a piece of tape onepart of which is woven into two separatedplies d, while the other part of the said tape consists of a single bodycl, in whichthe two plies are joined together by binders in weaving. Thedivided part 01 of the tape is caused to embrace the edge of the goringc, and is joined thereto by one or more lines of stitches. The leatherportions aand b of the shoe top are stitched to the single parts d ofthe pieces of tapes which are joined to the edges of the goring. By thusstitching the leather portion of the shoe to the divided tape andjoining the latter to the goring, in the manner stated, the leather isheld out of contact with the goring, being indirectly connectedtherewith through the divided tape which embraces and protects thegoring, keeping the Oil of the leather away from the rubber strandsthereof so that no injury to the goring can result from the oil in theleather. It will therefore be seen that by the use of this divided tape,which is joined to the edges of the goring, the latter will be properlyprotected from the oil of the leather, as theleather parts of the upperof the shoe are not attached directly to the goring but to the tapewhich serves as an indirect connection of the leather and goring, thuspreventing the oil of the leather from injuring the rubber warps of thegoring.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent A Congress shoe or gaiter in which the goring is providedat its opposite edges with sec- In testimony whereof I affix mysignature in tions of tape stitched thereto and which tape presence oftwo witnesses. consists of two separated plies atone side and a singlebody at the other side, the leather GEO. O. MOORE. 5 constitutin theupper part of the shoe bein secured to the single body portions of thesaid Wltnesses J OHN L. STRONG tape, substantially 1n the manner and forthe p purpose set forth. HUMPHRISS-

